Delete Cloud Cruiser Customers by ID

delete_customers.py

"""
OS packages required:
1. libxml2-dev (Debian), libxml2-devel (RHEL)
2. libxslt-dev (Debian), libxslt-devel (RHEL)
3. python-dev (Debian), python-devel (RHEL)

Python packages required:
1. lxml
2. requests

Description:
Deletes customer entries in cloud cruiser using the rest api.

Execution Instructions:
python delete_customers.py
"""
from lxml import objectify
import requests

r = requests.get('http://cloudcruiser.acme.com:8080/rest/v2/customers/summaries', auth=('restuser', 'password'))

result = str(r.text)

main = objectify.fromstring(result)

customer_ids = []
for child in main.customerSummary:
    item = child.items()
    customer_ids.append(item[0][1])

for customer_id in customer_ids:
    r = requests.delete('http://cloudcruiser.acme.com:8080/rest/v2/customers/{id}'.format(id=customer_id), auth=('restuser', 'password'))
    print "Deleting customer with ID {id}... HTTP result code {http_result}".format(id=customer_id, http_result=r.status_code)